01643nam a2200253 i 4500001000700000003000600007005001700013008004100030020001800071020001500089040002700104082001900131100003300150245009200183264003500275300001400310336002600324337002800350338002700378520090500405650001801310650003101328650003001359363586InACL20260927135907.0260927s2008    xxu               0 eng d  a9781559708968  a1559708964  aInACLbengerdacInACL04a841.4bLAF2231 aFontaine, Jean de Laeauthor14aThe complete fables of La Fontaine :ba new translation in verse /cJean de La Fontaine 1aNew York :bArcade Pub.,c2008  a350 pages  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  a"In this contemporary translation, Craig Hill has captured the liveliness, satiric wit, and poetic beauty that made Jean de La Fontaine famous during his lifetime and his Fables celebrated as a masterwork of world literature ever since." "Despite La Fontaine's deceptively modest claim that all he intended was to put the moral tales of Aesop and other ancient fabulists into poetry for the pleasure of Louis XIV's young son, his real accomplishment, as later generations have understood, was holding a mirror up to the society of his day and in the process fashioning a work that has become a classic." "Borrowing from a variety of sources, La Fontaine gave the hitherto mute animals in ancient fables the power of speech. Putting his characters on stage and endowing them with irresistibly witty dialogue, he portrayed with great humor the flaws and pretensions that still dog us. Backstabbing poli 0aFrench Fables 0aChildren's stories, French 0aTranslations into English